proponents say it will help the economy as minimum wake workers will have more money to spend. earlier this year in san francisco they raised their minimum wage. >>> have you heard about it? a way to raise money online, often for a particular project to a lot of little donations. >> one turned to crowd funding to help improve their building and ended up with not just money but some surprising attention. garvin thomas has their story tonight. >> reporter: for all the great work that they have done for the past four decades, they do keep a relatively low profile. a lot of that comes for the personal of their director michelle clark. she says she's more steak than sizzle. in tonight's bay area crowd she gets credit for both. >> so you need to know i do this all the time. ask michelle clark how one gets to washington, d.c. and she'll take you up on the roof. sha being the best place, of course, to put solar panels. in this case the panels that power the building, that houses the youth employment partnership at the corner of 23rd and international boulevard in oakland. the nonprofit